Mom, Dad, Kelly, and I had a great time at the Braves vs. Marlins game. We got great seats! The 20th row behind the braves doug out! How could we afford those seats? Well it all started at Danny’s baseball game. It was youth night and Mom bought me a ticket. Last year I won a small garbage bag of candy: Sugar babies, Sugar Daddies, DOTS, Lollie pops, big Totsie rolls, etc. A bat, Brookwood baseball hat, Brookwood baseball shirt, Signed baseball by all the players, all of these coupons to McDonald’s, and Bruster’s. But the best part was 2 braves tickets. Guess what happened this year… won all of those thing but I won 4 tickets to the braves game! Now moving along. There was a huge tv at the end of the field and lot’s of camera’s! I got on tv 3 times! It showed just me! The first time I blew kisses and the other 2 times I danced. There was this really funny guy with a cow boy hat on. He was a teen. He was the big joke! The best part was that the braves won and “The Wave” went around 3 times. It even got up to the balconies! The game ended 8 to nothing! What a great game!

“A cell phone, Cool!” Danny said. It was his graduation gift. “Hey Mom, when do I get a cell phone” I asked. “I think in high school.” She replied. “Some kids at my school ALREADY have a cell phone! “Kelly and I explained. “That’s nice.” Mom said.

Mom told me it was time for bed since it WAS 9:00. When I was finished reading Kelly rushed into my room saying, “Mom gat a cell phone just like Danny’s!” “How??” I asked,” It was those by 1 get 1 free!” She replied. I skipped out of bed and ran down stairs and asked, “May I have your old cell phone Mom?” “I don’t kn-” “I think it’s okay!” Dad interrupted. “It doesn’t work anyway!” “Well……. Okay.”

Mom said.

When I came home I told mom that I got all A’s even in Focus! Dad joked, ” Maybe we SHOULD give the cell phone after all!”

Welcome to my palace well van palace that is. Let me start from the beginning, I sit in the van board, played with poppy toy, read a book, played outside the van. Then a light bulb was shinning in my head. I started out by pulling the back seat all the way down. I looked for all the blankets and covered the seat up. Then I took another blanket rolled it up and made it into a pillow! It was ready to be put to the test. Oh Boy! That was the most comfiest thing I have ever sat down on! Stout came over and sat with me so did mom. Clyde looked back then quickly faced forward when we looked up. While mom and I were chatting and laughing. Clyde came over and hopped up to get on too. We were all Happy!!:o) Now to explain about the picture I’m reading a book.Oops! I.. uh… am reading upside down.

For Christmas, I got a Voice Changer science kit. I had to put it together, and my Dad helped me. We had to connect a resistor. We had to connect the transistor. We had to connect the capacitor. Then we had to connect the speaker. Then we had to put on the grill and test it. Then we had to put it all together.

This is me saying “Don’t make me destroy your planet.”

This is me helping my Dad try. He makes a mistake at first.

Now playing: The Voice by Alan Parsons Project

One early morning Dad woke me up and told me to get dressed and get into my MLK day shirt, a.k.a. the work day shirt. I got up and we had some juice, went into the car. I brought a book and drawing pad. Dad brought a pillow in case I needed to take a nap.

Finally we got to Harland. We walked to the cafeteria. I got Trix, yogurt, some orange juice, a donut. I got introduced to a lot of people at Dad’s work. They told jokes to each other which I didn’t get, so when they laughed, I politely laughed too, even though I didn’t get it.

After that Tim Tuff got on the microphone and started talking about what we were going to do. We got into our groups and drove all the way to the school.

This picture is a group picture before we started. The principal took it. Dad and I are in the middle of the front row. I am holding a broom pretending to clean up.

We finally got our jobs to get started. We got paint, and when Dad was going over, I snuck a $100 grand candy bar. Then I rushed over to him to catch up. Our assignment was to go and paint the boys and girls third grade bathroom. It did not smell good, but we had to ignore that and get to work.

Dad and I finally agreed after all the ideas I had to paint grass all around the girls bathroom, put in some flowers, and put in a dragon fly. Here is Dad and I painting the grass.

This is what I was thinking of and what we did.

The boys room smelled even worse. But we had to really ignore it and get to work. Dad was thinking of doing a mountain of climbing dinosaurs. I thought, nah. We should do hands all around for a border, reaching up to different kinds of sport balls. But that would take too long, so this boy came in and helped us do the hand prints. I was in charge of the right hand, and he was in charge of the left hand. I did not like the paint all slimy on my hand.

This is what we did. I think we did a pretty good job. Two thumbs up.

The principal told Tim Tuff that I should be the next CEO.

Futurelink: Claire on Harland Wall

One night when Danny came home from work, he brought home…… a turtle? The dogs kept barking at the turtle. And it kept mom awake all night. The next morning Clyde just stood there staring at the turtle. I went inside to get some salad for the turtle.

I brought Clyde in so I could see the turtle eat some food. Clyde was laying down and winning. Like he would never go outside and look at him.

It was time for Stout and Clyde to eat their breakfast. Clyde rushed outside to see the turtle he looked and looked. But, it was true he didn’t get to ever get to see the turtle again outside. He walked slowly inside with a sad face into the house thinking about his friend the turtle. And he was Clyde’s little turtle.

My grandma is special to me. We don’t call her Grandma we call her Gramalie. My dad goes their house a lot. When he says I’m going to Gramalies house, I race over where dad was standing. And I would ask if I could come too. He always says yes.

When we get to their house Gramalie comes over and gives me kisses. She leads me to the cookie jar. She always has some new cookies in the lion cookie jar. Then she say, “Would you like some hot chocolate Claire?” So I say exited “Oh, would I!” She makes homemade hot chocolate. She goes up stairs why’ll I fill my tummy up with her homade hot chocolate.

She brings down a bag with her old dresses. So we dress up in them and put on jewelry. Dad comes up and takes pictures. We laghf and laghf. Then she tells me a story that she knew scince she was a little girl. She gives me one more cookie to go. She gives me kisses and I say “I can’t wait to come back Gramalie!”